| variola benigna | <medicine> Resembling smallpox; pertaining to the disease called varioloid. Origin: Variola: cf. F. Varioloide. <medicine> The smallpox as modified by previous inoculation or vaccination. It is almost always a milder disease than smallpox, and this circumstance, with its shorter duration, exhibits the salutary effects of previous vaccination or inoculation. Origin: Cf. F. Varioloide. See Varioloid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| variola haemorrhagica | A severe and frequently fatal form of smallpox accompanied by extravasation of blood into the skin in the early stage, or into the pustules at a later stage, accompanied often by nosebleed and haemorrhage from other orifices of the body. Synonym: fulminating smallpox, variola haemorrhagica. (05 Mar 2000) |
| variola major | <disease, virology> This acute viral disease once claimed a high mortality rate, but was officially announced as globally eradicated in 1979. This was due to who vaccination programs. Headache, vomiting and fever precede, the eruption of a widespread rash that is raised, vesicular and finally pustular. The eruption follows a set pattern of dissemination, commencing on the head and face. When the final stage is passed scars (pockmarks) are left to disfigure the skin. (27 Sep 1997) |
| variola maligna | Malignant smallpox, usually of the haemorrhagic form. Synonym: malignant smallpox. Variola miliaris, a form of varioloid in which the eruption consists of miliary vesicles without the formation of pustules. (05 Mar 2000) |
| variola minor | A mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent strain of the virus. Synonym: Cuban itch, Kaffir pox, milkpox, pseudosmallpox, pseudovariola, variola minor, West Indian smallpox, whitepox. Origin: Pg. Alastrar, to scatter over (05 Mar 2000) |
| variola pemphigosa | A form of smallpox in which the eruption consists of pemphigus-like blebs. Variola sine eruptione, an abortive form of smallpox in which the disease subsides without the appearance of any eruption, or at most a few papules that never go on to pustulation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| variola vaccine | <dermatology> The cutaneous and sometimes systemic reactions associated with vaccination with smallpox vaccine. (18 Nov 1997) |
| variola vaccinia | <dermatology> The cutaneous and sometimes systemic reactions associated with vaccination with smallpox vaccine. (18 Nov 1997) |
| variola vera | Simple smallpox of ordinary severity in the unvaccinated. (05 Mar 2000) |
| variola verrucosa | A mild or abortive form of varioloid, the eruption of which consists mainly of papules, with occasionally minute vesicles at the apices, which persist for a time as wartlike lesions. Synonym: wartpox. (05 Mar 2000) |
| variola virus | <virology> Virus responsible for smallpox. Said to have been completely eradicated. Large DNA virus (brick like, 250-390nm x 20-260nm) with complex outer and inner membranes (not derived from plasma membrane of host cell). (18 Nov 1997) |
| variolar | <medicine> Variolous. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| variolate | 1. To inoculate with smallpox. 2. Pitted or scarred, as if by smallpox. (05 Mar 2000) |
| variolation | <medicine> Inoculation with smallpox. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| variolic | <medicine> Variolous. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |